• “Ground rules. Free throw” (2015) by Theaster Gates • “In his Ground rules series, the artist repurposes salvaged remains of gymnasium floors taken from high schools that have been decommissioned by the city of Chicago, where he lives and works. For Gates, the rules represented by the athletic markings on a gym floor are a crucial way in which children learn a larger social order; a lack of access to gyms becomes, over time, a lack of understanding of the rules both big and small.” —americanart.si.edu #admiringart